About the Author
Robert Lamb grew up in Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia. After a career in journalism, last at The Atlanta Constitution, he taught writing at Clemson University and at the University of South Carolina.
His first novel, Striking Out, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
His second novel, Atlanta Blues, was a Southern Book Critics Circle Selection and was cited in a year-end roundup of new books as "one of the three best novels of the year by a Southern writer - and maybe the best."
His third novel, A Majority of One, is about a clash between religion and the U.S. Constitution over book-banning in public schools.
His latest novel, And Tell Tchaikovsky the News, is a story about the healing powers of "that old-time rock 'n' roll."
He has also published a collection of short stories and poems titled Six of One, Half Dozen of Another (Stories & Poems + 1). The book features works representing a lifetime of writing, with an afterword on the origins of the poems and stories, one of which, "R.I.P.," was a winner in the 2009 South Carolina Fiction Project. The author lives at Pawleys Island, S.C., and can be reached at robtlamb@gmail.com